Hacker News: Konryan

New comment by Konryan in "Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use"

Konryan — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:09:02 +0000

I've had the opposite experience - both my 2008 plastic Macbook and my 2011 Macbook Pro had enough quality issues in their first 3 or so years that I switched to other manufacturers.

New comment by Konryan in "Game Programming Patterns (2014)"

Konryan — Sat, 16 May 2020 16:49:21 +0000

Do you have any recommendations for books about Game Architecture?

New comment by Konryan in "Buca di Beppo, America’s Most Postmodern Red Sauce Chain"

Konryan — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:42:56 +0000

As someone who lives in Italy, a lot of what seems to be considered "Italian" in the US sometimes feels like little more than a caricature. It does trouble me slightly, because it feels like an impersonation of Italian culture.

On the other hand, it's probably just culture diverging and developing in different ways after migration, which is to be expected. So the problem is mostly one of identity: the same label - italian - means very different things to people across the world...

New comment by Konryan in "European Parliament approves copyright reform"

Konryan — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:44:56 +0000

That's not exactly true. Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something, and citizens can put forward proposal through the ECI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative

New comment by Konryan in "Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option"

Konryan — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:03:46 +0000

I don't know if it's true, but I often think the only real solution for weight loss is eating less, and that exercise is more of a way to improve general fitness rather than losing weight.

New comment by Konryan in "Purism announces PureOS Store"

Konryan — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:29:29 +0000

I wonder whether they're building it from scratch or leveraging some of the work put into other stores\app centers like Gnome's or Elementary's.

New comment by Konryan in "DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps"

Konryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:55:31 +0000

This map doesn't work for me. Completely blank.

New comment by Konryan in "Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules"

Konryan — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:00:42 +0000

What's their issue with it?

New comment by Konryan in "The Firefox Dilemma"

Konryan — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:57:59 +0000

I think there's another factor at play that isn't often mentioned: Google uses the dominant position of its services, as well as the strength of their brands, to promote Chrome as the better browser, in not-so-subtle ways.

One is often repeatedly prompted to install Chrome when visiting Google on other browsers[1][2]. Most normal users would just give up and install just to get rid of the pop up.

Microsoft has been doing the same (e.g. trying to trick you into keeping Edge when trying to select another browser as default on Windows 10), but their product wasn't good enough for it to work, it seems.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1192441/is-it-possible-to-te... [2] https://support.mozilla.org/it/questions/922025

New comment by Konryan in "I 3D-printed every bit of my wedding, including my bouquet"

Konryan — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:10:29 +0000

This is interesting, though the environmentalist in me can't help but think about how much plastic that is...

New comment by Konryan in "Why do all websites look the same?"

Konryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:03:55 +0000

Those examples make me very, very glad all the websites 'look the same'.

New comment by Konryan in "EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’"

Konryan — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:00:32 +0000

Here are more details on the process following this vote from the EDRi: https://edri.org/press-release-eu-parliament-flip-flops-back...

Website cookies and third-party content in decline post-GDPR

Konryan — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 01:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/website-cookies-and-third-party-content-decline-post-gdpr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806014

Points: 2

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New comment by Konryan in "What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?"

Konryan — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:05:51 +0000

It's not like they didn't have MacBooks with serious design flaws when Steve Jobs was around...

New comment by Konryan in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

Konryan — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:17:19 +0000

People hate Microsoft for "being Microsoft" BECAUSE of what Microsoft is, does and has done.

I'm sure you will find most people who voice those opinions have their own reasons, based on history, to be distrustful of Microsoft and the way this acquisition will be handled.

New comment by Konryan in "Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend"

Konryan — Thu, 24 May 2018 17:31:59 +0000

This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs.

It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an actual solution, but by then it was far too late.

New comment by Konryan in "Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar"

Konryan — Mon, 07 May 2018 20:40:49 +0000

This needs some visual feedback when you try turning the knobs.

New comment by Konryan in "Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide"

Konryan — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:55:07 +0000

I'm not sure - from my experience it seems they've been going further and further along the road of planned obsolescence.